Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
Having children fukks men over more than the marriage. Most average, middle wage earning men aren't out here paying all their money in alimony because they don't make enough to have stay at home wives. It's the child support and family court that hurts most average men, which is why having children is a bigger commitment than marriage.
If men had the same mentality towards having children as we do with marriage, then we'd have less issues.
Fathers married to the biological mother of their children don't pay court-enforced child support.
And they don't require visitation arrangements because they live with their children.
However, the welfare/child support/family court system, since the 1980s, has served as a complete disincentive to black married-family development.
Its focus has been under the guise of "supporting children's best interests" when instead, it has shifted limited black financial resources to fund forming majority black single-mother headed families, single-grandmother headed families, and the destructive social services/family law process that has benefitted from mostly unmarried parents battling one another.
Plenty of women who don't believe in monogamy prefer to be in an open relationship.
...like almost, if not, half of them. Seriously, breh, what generation do you really belong to? More than forty percent of college "educated" black women today have one or more children out of wedlock. What planet are you living on where none of these facts are reality? I'd like to visit.